The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception

or

Mystic Christianity

An Elementary Treatise Upon
Man’s Past Evolution, Present Constitution
and Future Development

By

Max Heindel

LIST OF CONTENTS

PART I

MAN’S PRESENT CONSTITUTION AND METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT

 

• A Word to the Wise
• The Four Kingdoms, diagram
• Introduction
• CHAPTER I. The Visible and Invisible Worlds
  • Chemical Region of the Physical World
  • Etheric Region of the Physical World
  • The Desire World
  • The World of Thought
  • Diagram 1. The Material World a Reverse Reflection of the Spiritual Worlds
  • Diagram 2. The Seven Worlds

   

• CHAPTER II. The Four Kingdoms
  • Diagram 3. The Vehicles of the Four Kingdoms
  • Diagram 4. The Consciousness of the Four Kingdoms

   

• CHAPTER III. Man and the Method of Evolution.
  • Activities of Life; Memory and Soul-growth
  • The Constitution of the Seven-fold Man
  • Diagram 5. The Three-fold Spirit, the Three-fold Body and the Three-fold Soul
  • Death and Purgatory
  • Diagram 5 1/2. The Silver Cord
  • The Borderland
  • The First Heaven
  • The Second Heaven
  • The Third Heaven
  • Preparations for Rebirth
  • Birth of the Dense Body
  • Birth of the Vital Body and Growth
  • Birth of the Desire Body and Puberty
  • Birth of the Mind and Majority
  • The Blood; the Vehicle of the Ego
  • A Life Cycle (diagram)

   

• CHAPTER IV. Rebirth and the Law of Consequence
  • Wine as a Factor in Evolution
  • A Remarkable Story

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PART II.

COSMOGENESIS AND ANTHROPOGENESIS.

 

• CHAPTER V. The Relation of Man to God
  • Diagram 6. The Supreme Being, the Cosmic Planes and God

   

• CHAPTER VI. The Scheme of Evolution.
  • The Beginning
  • The Seven Worlds
  • The Seven Periods
  • Diagram 7. The Saturn Period

   

• CHAPTER VII. The Path of Evolution
  • Revolutions and Cosmic Nights
  • Diagram 8. The Seven Worlds, Seven Globes and Seven Periods

   

• CHAPTER VIII. The Work of Evolution.
  • Ariadne’s Thread
  • The Saturn Period
  • Recapitulation
  • The Sun Period
  • The Moon Period
  • Diagram 9. The Twelve Creative Hierarchies

   

• CHAPTER IX. Stragglers and Newcomers
  • Classes of Beings at the Beginning of the Moon Period
  • Diagram 10. Classes at the Beginning of Earth Period

   

• CHAPTER X. The Earth Period
  • Saturn Revolution of the Earth Period
  • Sun Revolution of the Earth Period
  • Moon Revolution of the Earth Period
  • Rest Periods Between Revolutions
  • The Fourth Revolution of the Earth Period

   

• CHAPTER XI. Genesis and Evolution of Our Solar System.
  • Chaos
  • The Birth of the Planets
  • Diagram 11. Aspects of God and Man
  • Diagram 12. A Man’s Past, Present and Future Form

   

• CHAPTER XII. Evolution on the Earth.
  • The Polarian Epoch
  • The Hyperborean Epoch
  • The Moon; the Eighth Sphere
  • The Lemurian Epoch
  • Birth of the Individual
  • Separation of the Sexes
  • Influence of Mars
  • The Races and Their Leaders
  • Influence of Mercury
  • The Lemurian Race
  • The Fall of Man
  • The Lucifer Spirits
  • The Atlantean Epoch
  • The Aryan Epoch
  • The Sixteen Paths to Destruction

   

• CHAPTER XIII. Back to the Bible
• CHAPTER XIV. Occult Analysis of Genesis.
  • Limitations of the Bible
  • In the Beginning
  • The Nebular Theory
  • The Creative Hierarchies
  • The Saturn Period
  • The Sun Period
  • The Moon Period
  • The Earth Period
  • Jehovah and His Mission
  • Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis
  • A Living Soul?
  • Adam’s Rib
  • Guardian Angels
  • Mixing Blood in Marriage
  • The Fall of Man
  • Diagram 13. The Beginning and End of Sex

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PART III

MAN’S FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND INITIATION

 

• Diagram. The Seven Days of Creation
• CHAPTER XV. Christ and His Mission
  • The Evolution of Religion
  • Jesus and Christ-Jesus
  • Diagram 14. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
  • Not Peace but a Sword
  • The Star of Bethlehem
  • The Heart an Anomaly
  • The Mystery of Golgotha
  • The Cleansing Blood
  • Diagram, “As Above, so Below”

   

• CHAPTER XVI. Future Development and Initiation.
  • The Seven Days of Creation
  • Diagram 15. The Symbolism of the Caduceus
  • Radiates, Mollusks, Articulates and Vertebrates
  • Spirals within Spirals
  • Alchemy and Soul Growth
  • The Creative Word

   

• CHAPTER XVII. The Method of Acquiring First-Hand Knowledge.
  • The First Steps
  • Western Methods for Western People
  • The Science of Nutrition
  • Table of Food Values, Part I
  • Table of Food Values, Part II
  • The Law of Assimilation
  • Live and Let Live
  • The Lord’s Prayer
  • Diagram 16. The Lord’s Prayer
  • The Vow of Celibacy
  • The Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland
  • Diagram 17. Path of the Unused Sex Currents
  • Esoteric Training
  • How the Inner Vehicle is Built
  • Concentration
  • Meditation
  • Observation
  • Discrimination
  • Contemplation
  • Adoration

   

• CHAPTER XVIII. The Constitution of the Earth and Volcanic Eruptions
  • The Number of the Beast
  • Diagram 18. The Constitution of the Earth

   

• CHAPTER XIX. Christian Rosenkreuz and the Order of Rosicrucians
  • Ancient Truths in Modern Dress
  • Initiation
  • The Rosicrucian Fellowship
  • Correspondence Courses
  • Symbolism of Rose Cross
• Topical Index
• Alphabetical Index
• Evening Exercise
• Morning Exercise